Hello!

I am a fool and I have talked like one.

And that is the last you will hear from this space.

Thanks for the formz.

Mike

Funny Failure

Yesterday wasn't Earth Day. The joke continues.

Kind of a Joke?

"Happy belated Earth Day."

It's So Easy

An Easy Victory

I'm rarely proud of what I do at work, but opening a paragraph with "Today is Earth Day" boosted my spirits this evening. The man who edits my summaries of TV shows was kind enough to leave well enough alone, and he did a great job with the subheds. Further thanks are well in order.

And now I'm off to a coffee shop to meet my favorite Sulkypants.

Beck's in the Moonlight

Normally I'm not one to go in for the bocks, but to paraphrase an old friend from out West, there's nothing for a successful summer evening like a big huge Beck's.

In my backyard, I could hear Radiohead, probably the new album (slow, minor piano and Thom Yorke quavering as he is wont to do nowadays), playing from the window of the college kids two floors above. The apartment complex next door is nearly finished, and it's a monstrosity -- aluminum, curvy walls. They really gutted that place. But the air was warm and full of the promise of a teenage birthday party.

So I says, not too much can go wrong from here.

A Fact About "The Legend of Zelda" and Some Other Things

I'm still on a kick of reading about video games on Wikipedia. Okay enough jibbajabba let's make with some facts!

-Princess Zelda takes her name from Zelda Fitzgerald!

-"The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past" deftly uses a pun in a title.

That's it. Not the most research-heavy of posts.

Leona Lewis - "Bleeding Love"

Okay so the #1 track this week is a song by Leona Lewis, a British performer who looks like Ani Difranco sorta and tears a half a page out of the Kate Bush playbook, near as I can tell.

Embedded below: a YouTube clip of a Karaoke version by YouTube member Oliviathai, who apparently does numerous YouTube covers.



Now for a slideshow of vidcaps from another music video from Leona Lewis. This time the song is "Better in Time."





Note the 19th-century Brit-Lit imagery of a lady and a guy and a horse, kind of like that book Jane Eyre. I think I'm not wrong about that anyway.

This song had me thinking like, "Okay this is one of those weepy songs like the Fergie ballad that hit the top spot a couple months ago." But when the drums came in with some reverb, I was reminded of songs at parties that ignite a fire in the ladies and offer a chance for the dudes to come a little closer. And Leona Lewis wears a lot of makeup, which is kind of unladylike, in a good way.

And that's all I really care to say about Leona Lewis for the moment. I think she'll be in the #1 spot only for a week. But it's a good week for her to be there.

Can It Be All So Simple

I stepped out of my apartment for a minute this morning. My landlord was in the garage. Turns out he has a dinghy, the motor for which was in need of repairs.

"I sail all over -- Cape Cod, Boston, I've been to Florida, Bermuda."

"Sounds great. I hope you figure out what's wrong."

"Oh, I think I got it. There's a bad wire here. Usually, when I look hard enough, I find problems."

A woman was walking her child in a stroller. The little girl waved to me and said "hello." She gave her name.

"Nice meeting you, Eva. Enjoy the weather. I guess it's a little cloudy."

"Bye!"

A Special Message to Me From Delaware

1) Cars stacked nearly on top of one another over the Delaware Memorial Bridge and for several miles afterward. As a special "fuck you" to me, the state had narrowed I-95 to two lanes. The loud women from Maryland complained that the bus driver was talking in Chinese.

2) Last night I dreamed I was back in Delaware waiting tables. This wasn't so bad except no one would tell me where my section was. I would start serving a family, and the managers would move them as I was getting drinks. The menu kept switching mid-meal, too, and people were ordering bizarre things like two lobsters with scrambled eggs and noodles. I had wanted to show the other waiters that I had improved since last time but I continued to look very stupid. At least I was not embarrassed about any of this.

I'm Southbound!

Gearing up for a weekend in the city I fled times before. There, the ratio of time people devote to having an interesting vs. healthy life is probably 70/30. In New York, it's more like 99/1. There will be video games, there will be grilling, and there will be very little blood (with any luck).

DC ahoy, bitches.